His research interests are Chinese folk literature and classical novels, and he has taught courses such as Fifty Years of Chinese Studies.
He is the author of Wan Li Great Wall Legend and Chinese Folk Literature Genre, China Historical Romance and Folk Literature Tradition —— On Various Oral and Written Variants of Three Kingdoms Stories, From Myth to Zhang Hui Novels, The Evolution of Characters in China Literature and Essays on China Myths and Stories. Other works include History of Cultural Exchanges in Central Asia, Literary Methods in the Middle Ages in the East, and China's Drama Theory.
1932 was born in a staff family in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
1950 Li Fuqing entered the Oriental Department of Leningrad University and began to learn Chinese.
1953 and 1954, Li Fuqing went to Central Asia again to continue studying Gansu dialect and Shaanxi dialect, and concentrated on collecting oral materials of folk literature.
1955 graduated from the Chinese Department of Oriental Department of Leningrad University, and was assigned to work in the Institute of World Literature of Moscow Soviet Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), specializing in Chinese folk literature and Chinese popular literature.
1958, Li Fuqing published "The Legend of Han Xin-one of the historical legends of China circulated among Donggan people" in the Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Studies of China Academy of Sciences, and made a comparative study of the legends and written materials recorded by Li Fuqing in the Biography of Miliang.
1965- 1966 studied in Peking University.
196 1, 1970 received associate doctor's degree and doctor's degree successively, and was promoted to senior researcher and chief researcher successively.
1972, Li Fuqing went to Ulaanbaatar with his friend, Nick Rudoff, an expert researcher in Mongolian folk literature.
1977, Li Fuqing cooperated with two Donggan scholars to compile the collection of Donggan folk tales and legends, which was published by Moscow Science Press.
From 65438 to 0986, Li Fuqing wrote the article "Traditional Elements in Contemporary Literature in China" and participated in the International Symposium on Contemporary Literature in China.
1987 65438+was elected as a member of the School of Communication on February 23rd. He has the highest academic title in Russian sinology literature.
From 65438 to 0992, Li Fuqing went to Taiwan Province Province at the invitation of the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University in Taiwan Province Province. The invitation suggests that Li Fuqing should offer two courses, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Chinese Folk Literature, and at the same time host a research project-collecting and comparing the folk literature of the aborigines in Taiwan Province (actually nine different nationalities in Chinese mainland).
From 65438 to 0992, Li Fuqing was invited to Taiwan to attend the seminar on the history of European Sinology.
In 2000, Li Fuqing wrote a long article "Translation and Research of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio-Aleksev and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio", and took it to the second international symposium on the study of strange stories from a Lonely Studio held in Zibo, Shandong Province on 200 1, which aroused great interest of the participants. The published minutes of the meeting published this article in a long space.
20 12 10 died on1October 3rd.
Li Fuqing made a detailed review of his academic research career in the preface of his translation of China's classical novels and legends: Li Fuqing's collection of Chinese studies (the following is quoted from Classical Novels and Legends: Li Fuqing's collection of Chinese studies, Li Fuqing's Fifty Years of China Literature Research (preface), edited by Li Mingbo, Zhonghua Book Company, June 2003).
1950 Li Fuqing entered the Oriental Department of Leningrad University and began to learn Chinese. At that time, there was no teacher, China, and no conversation class, mainly reading, and reading Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles every day. Li Fuqing can learn Gansu dialect in the summer vacation. Although it is not Beijing dialect, it is still better than not speaking it at all. Li Fuqing came to a collective farm inhabited by Hui people in Gansu, named Miliangchuan. Here, Li Fuqing heard all kinds of China folklore, folk stories and folk songs for the first time, such as Jiang Taigong selling noodles, Meng Jiangnv crying at the Great Wall, the legend of Han Xin, male students and female students (that is, butterfly lovers) and so on. As a result, Li Fuqing became interested in Chinese folk literature.
Li Fuqing recorded the legends, stories and folk songs they told Li Fuqing. Because Chinese characters are difficult to write, Li Fuqing recorded the pronunciation with Russian letters. After returning to Leningrad University, Li Fuqing began to look for information in the library, but he didn't get much.
Li Fuqing wrote his graduation thesis with the collected materials. For example, the title of the fourth grade thesis is "A Preliminary Study of Donggan Traditional Folk Songs" (published in Soviet Orientalism 1956). In the fifth grade, I wrote my graduation thesis entitled "Idioms, Proverbs and Two-part Allegory in China", which not only referred to the books published by China, but also used the materials collected by Li Fuqing himself.
Prior to this, there was no record about the legend of Han Xin except for the article Legends and Historical Facts-Legends about Xiao He and Han Xin published by Zhang on pages 6-8 of the 66th issue of Guangzhou Folklore Weekly of 1929. Li Fuqing's record can be said to be the earliest. Of course, there are many legends about Han Xin, such as Han Xin burying his mother alive, his third birthday, killing the overlord and so on.
Li Fuqing wrote a detailed postscript for each story and legend, and compared these stories with related literary works (novels and operas). For example, by comparing Xue recorded in White Robe with Xue Zheng Liao Lue in Pinghua, Xue Dongzheng in Zhang Hui's novel and Xue's script, it is found that some storylines have evolved from Pinghua to novels, from novels to storytelling, and from professional storytelling to popular stories.
Collected 150 fairy tales to be published in cooperation with Professor Zheng of Taiwan Province Provincial University. Later, Li Fuqing investigated indigenous tribes and wrote some articles.
1998, Taichung Morningstar Publishing House published a book by Li Fuqing: From Myth to Ghost Story-A Comparative Study of Aboriginal Myths in Taiwan Province Province. This book has attracted the attention of experts from China Academy of Social Sciences.
200 1, Social Science Literature Publishing House published an updated version (simplified Chinese version) of this book, entitled Myth and Ghost Story. In this book, Li Fuqing compares the myths and folk stories of aborigines in Taiwan Province Province with those in Chinese mainland, the Philippines and Oceania. Some myths exist from ethnic minorities on both sides of Heilongjiang to many ethnic groups in Taiwan Province Province, such as the myth of shooting at the sun. Although the myth of Houyi shooting at the sun was recorded very early, the comparative study can prove that the myth of Houyi in ancient China was not primitive, but was formed in a relatively developed stage of human development.